Antivirus producers will rejoice at this. Many end-users will think they got infected.
Google giving Malware Warning on all search results (now fixed)
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Re: Google giving Malware Warning on all search results (now fixed)
#62I was doing research this morning for a radio show I host, and Amazon came up as malware. I was like what??? Malware on Amazon? Then I went back, and noticed every website was malware. I had to laugh, but it is interesting that Google doesn't have some sort of testing process before rolling out updates live.
Re: Google giving Malware Warning on all search results (now fixed)
#63Re: Google giving Malware Warning on all search results (now fixed)
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apropos of nothing, my friends have suggested Xanth to me on and off again for over a decade now. I know nothing about it except that Amazon will deliver it to my doorstep. What three books should I be buying?
What three [Xanth] books should I be buying? Perhaps not the one I mentioned, since I just spoiled it for you. :) I have found that adults don't tend to like Piers Anthony's writing (it's filled with puns and adolescent soft-porn humor), but if you want to better know where your friends - who might have read Xanth books at ages at which they could better appreciate the writing style - are coming from, I would pick th…
If you want some more mature books from Piers Anthony, the Apprentice Adept series and Incarnations of Immortality series are better than the Xanth ones. Plus, they're both only 7-8 books long, so it won't take you forever to read them all (if you actually get into them).
Apprentice Adept is kind of a cool dual-world series, with sci-fi in one world and fantasy in the other, and the ability for some to move between them. You should start with the first in the series, of course: Split Infinity.
Incarnations of Immortality also has the juxtaposition of sci-fi and fantasy, but in one world. The "hook" for this series is that the major "forces" in the world (time/death/fate/war/etc...) are actually offices which people fill (think The Santa Clause, but without Tim Allen or christmas). The first book of the series is On A Pale Horse.
A final word of warning: I read both of these series a long time ago, so it could be that they're actually not as mature as I remember =)
Re: Google giving Malware Warning on all search results (now fixed)
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
Its like the Internet just stopped. A la The Source of Magic . One day, all of the magic in Xanth was turned off. For awhile, Xanth was like Mundania. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Source_of_Magic
Apropos of nothing, my friends have suggested Xanth to me on and off again for over a decade now. I know nothing about it except that Amazon will deliver it to my doorstep. What three books should I be buying?
1) Neal Stephenson: Anathem
2) Victor Hugo: Les Miserables
3) Haruki Marakami: Hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world.
And ditch your so-called friend.
Re: Google giving Malware Warning on all search results (now fixed)
#66Here is the official explanation from Google:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/this-site-may-harm-yo...
Re: Google giving Malware Warning on all search results (now fixed)
#67Looks like it has been fixed.
I'm not sure whether to be impressed or terrified that Google can -- and, apparently, does -- roll out updates across their entire server farm in a matter of a minute or two.
"Since we push these updates in a staggered and rolling fashion, the errors began appearing between 6:27 a.m. and 6:40 a.m. and began disappearing between 7:10 and 7:25 a.m., so the duration of the problem for any particular user was approximately 40 minutes." from http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/this-site-may-harm-yo...
Re: Google giving Malware Warning on all search results (now fixed)
#68Re: Google giving Malware Warning on all search results (now fixed)
#69did google also tweak their spam filter? anyone seeing more emails that would not normally go to spam being sent to spam?
Re: Google giving Malware Warning on all search results (now fixed)
#70Here is the official explanation from Google: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/this-site-may-harm-yo...
"StopBadware.org to get our list of URLs"
"Unfortunately (and here's the human error), the URL of '/' was mistakenly checked in as a value to the file and '/' expands to all URLs."
Sounds like an opportunity to add a new acceptance test on items in that list :-)